Alteon ACEnic card

Hi,
Have you checked out
http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/trapeze/tcp-clarity.html
They hacked the OS kernel and made 970Mb/s over Alteon. Has somebody
duplicate that?
Eric He
PhD student
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago
(312) 996-3002
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Stefano wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Gary Stiehr wrote:
>> > Hi,
> > We are looking at Alteon's ACEnic card for use in our cluster. I was
> > wondering what people's experiences have been with the performance of
> > Alteon ACEnic cards. Which switches do you use with the cards? Do you
> > take advantage of the "jumbo frames?" Any information would be helpful.
> >
>> my personal experience, with similar cards (netgear), is simply .... bad.
> We have many double xeons with 64bits PCI slots. Since we are using fast
> 100 switch, and bandwidth is never enough, I bought 2 netgear cards and
> optical cable to make some tests. Xeons are too slow to handle this
> bandwidth while running jobs, so the effective bandwith is near the fast
> 100 connection. This is my "personal", sad, experience. Other users may
> be more lucky !
>> Stefano
>> > Thank you,
> > Gary Stiehr
> > Instructional Technology Services
> > University of Missouri - St. Louis
> > gary at umsl.edu> >
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